Racial Exclusion Essay

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Self and other are social binaries that have generated racial exclusion of non-whites; predominantly blacks. Racial exclusion is shown through the practice of xenophobic attitudes towards blacks. It is that this xenophobic attitudes aroused through the stereotypes generated to be the ideal black person possess uncivilised features, lips of a rapist, hairy, violent, and naked (OTHERNESS ARTICLE).Negative connotations are attached to these un-humane like features. It conjures an image of a beast like creature that is perceived through Christianity as a devil resulting in racial exclusion to blacks (BLACK IS NOT BEAUTIFUL). The othering of black is exemplified through the alienation of an African female in London and Paris in 1810. She was placed …show more content…

The self-described whites including mixture of British, Dutch and South African selected the more desirable areas with modern cultural infrastructures being build. This leaving the black others to exclusion amongst each individual tribe to be segregated to provide a cultural and soul life. (A PLACE FOR EVERYONE). In Chicago the racial exclusion of blacks resulted them to be segregated to the Ghettos, suggesting blacks are the lower class citizens with high employment, poor jobs and low income that just contaminate the white population. It was perceived that exclusion of blacks to be allocated to degraded ghettos would enable the isolations of poverty in the white environments creating otherness. (OTHER/OTHERNESS). The inclusion of whites being predominantly racialised as the superior race would encounter the portrayal of countries such as Canada to be the ‘Great White North’. (WHITENESS) It is that in Vancouver, Canada the social construction of racial categorising of Chinese ethnicity to be spatially concentrated in the form of Chinatown causing exclusion of the Chinese other. (RACE) In the United States of America studies have shown that white’s inclusion of freedom to move has enabled them to be more centralised in urbanised environments now. This resulting in decentralisation of blacks to be located in these industrialised areas. This results in blacks being racially excluded from urbanised environments (WHITESNESS). In other cases media has portrayed the stereotypical American landscape for a home which shows that whites are the superior inclusions in society shown through the representation of United States to be rural state of Vermont as the iconic white space that embodies people with white values, mores and estheitc tastes. (WHITESNESS). To justify, the spatial pattern being affected by race has resulted in the

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